Kindergarten is a full-day program at Birch Grove. The kindergarten experience involves adjustments to schooling as well as a full academic curriculum. Students have language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies units in addition to specials, including art, music, physical education, and library.
A child coming into kindergarten can be supported by being encouraged in the following:
Speaking and Listening (use and understand many words, speak in complete sentences, ask lots of questions, say and notice words that rhyme in stories, make up and share personal stories about his or her interests),
Reading and Writing (select familiar books and tell why he or she likes them, retell favorite stories from books, hold a book upright, identify letters of the alphabet, recognize letter sounds, recognize, copy and print his or her first name, hold a pencil and write with it),
Using mathematics (recognize and count up to ten items, recognize the number symbols 1-10, describe and talk about objects that have different sizes, colors, shapes and patterns, sort items by "same" and "different," use the words "near," "top," "bottom," "under," "first," "second," "last," and sort objects from smallest to largest, shortest to tallest and lightest to heaviest), and
Participating and Cooperating (understand and participate in conversations, stay involved in a directed activity to its completion, follow routines and directions, work and play together with other children). (Connecticut State Department of Education)
The links to the left provide details about the curriculum for kindergarten students.